FREE: Brownish Red Tomato - 20 seeds

Are the sweet?

Taste is relative to individuals. I just diced them up & put them in soup.

But the African Brown parent, was not acidic at all, and the other parent which I believe to be Early Girl (the only big red tomato I grew the same year as African Brown) has a traditional taste.

I love growing tomatoes, but was never a fresh tomato eater.

I grew up only thinking tomatoes were just round, red, and not very good.

Then I found out that there are really about 4 THOUSAND varieties out in the world!

But still, I just mainly use them diced for soup. The soup is seasoned to taste, so I rarely just taste them by themselves. I did taste African Brown, and there was no acidity at all. However, a "traditional" tomato lover didn't like African Brown, because it tasted different than a traditional tomato (no acid or tang).

Being a cross with a traditional tasting tomato, I'm sure that added what the African Brown seemed to be lacking.


I want to eventually grow paste types and make paste and sauces, but haven't done that yet. I tried to Grow a paste type (Andes Horn) this year, but it failed.

I'm going to try and grow it again next year.